Introduction

Although horticulturists and plant breeders have long sought to increase the size, number and intensity of flower colours, very few designers have come to terms with the ways in which these colours should be used in the context of the many colours of foliage, fruits, buds and bark, together with those of ‘hard’ elements of furniture, paving, walls, and buildings.

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Hascombe Court. The garden may have been laid out by Gertrude Jekyll.

LANCASTER, Michael (1984) Colour and the Garden in Britain in View: Colour and the Landscape. London: Quiller Press.